Keep Operations Running During EHR Downtime
Healthcare providers now treat electronic health record (EHR) downtime as a recurring operational reality rather than a rare glitch. As core clinical and administrative workflows migrate to digital platforms, manual fallback procedures no longer sustain the speed or accuracy required. Interlace Health’s new eBook proposes a digital continuity framework that runs alongside the EHR, preserving intake, documentation, visibility, and recovery during outages. The guide outlines the clinical, financial, compliance, and operational stakes of downtime and how a layered digital solution can stabilize care delivery.
Low-Code Development: A Solution for Quickly Evolving Industrial Environments
Low‑code development platforms are emerging as a fast‑track for industrial automation, with PwC reporting that nearly half of manufacturers plan to automate core processes by 2030. Mastek’s senior VP Chandrakant Deshmukh highlighted how low‑code tools can fuse IoT data, AI...
Oracle Delivers Semantic Search without LLMs
Oracle introduced Trusted Answer Search, a semantic search solution that relies on vector similarity rather than large language models. Enterprises define a curated search space of approved documents and metadata, enabling deterministic, auditable responses such as reports or URLs. The...
Why AI’s Biggest Bottleneck Isn’t Intelligence, It’s Orchestration
Enterprises are hitting a hidden bottleneck: legacy orchestration tools can’t keep pace with AI‑driven workflows. A top‑10 global bank rebuilt a six‑month process in six days after adopting a modern coordination layer, highlighting the gap between AI ambition and execution...
Introducing the Future of Salesforce Data Protection: Backup & Recover Next
Salesforce announced Backup & Recover Next, its first native backup solution to achieve FedRAMP High compliance. The service offers automated daily backups of standard and custom objects, files, attachments, and sandboxes while staying inside the Salesforce trust boundary. It claims...
Storage News Ticker – April 17
April 17’s data‑management ticker highlighted a wave of product launches and market milestones aimed at simplifying AI‑driven data workflows and bolstering sovereign‑cloud resilience. Adeptia’s Automate 5.2 adds natural‑language querying for workflow diagnostics, while Attacama ONE offers audit‑ready evidence to satisfy the EU...
Users Complain that UK Azure Is Having Capacity Problems
Microsoft Azure users in the United Kingdom are reporting that both the UK‑South and UK‑West regions have reached full capacity, preventing the allocation of new virtual machines or Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Companies spending several million pounds (≈$3‑5 million) annually on...
Every Old Vulnerability Is Now an AI Vulnerability
Microsoft patched CVE‑2026‑26144, an XSS flaw in Excel that now exploits the Copilot Agent to silently exfiltrate spreadsheet data. The vulnerability demonstrates how AI agents can amplify traditional bugs, granting them autonomous, privileged actions beyond the original exploit. Security experts...
Advancing Secret Sync with Workload Identity Federation
HashiCorp released Vault Enterprise 2.0, extending its secret sync feature with workload identity federation for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The new capability replaces long‑lived static cloud credentials with short‑lived, automatically refreshed federated tokens. This change makes secret distribution fully...
VMRay Announces Sovereign European Cloud for Advanced Threat Analysis
VMRay unveiled the VMRay Sovereign European Cloud, a SaaS platform that delivers advanced threat analysis while guaranteeing full data residency within Europe. The service runs on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and is operated by a Luxembourg‑incorporated entity, providing physical...
Security Update: Retiring Weak TLS Cipher Suites
Zoho Corp announced that it will retire all weak TLS cipher suites across its data centers, with the change taking effect on June 30, 2026. Going forward, only strong TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 suites such as ECDHE‑ECDSA and CHACHA20‑POLY1305 will be...
GitLab 18.11 Brings Agentic AI to Security Fixes, CI Pipelines, and Delivery Analytics
GitLab unveiled version 18.11, extending its agentic AI across security remediation, CI pipeline creation, and delivery analytics. The GA Agentic SAST Vulnerability Resolution automatically generates fixes for true‑positive findings and opens merge requests with confidence scores. Two new agents—CI Expert...
Purchase Without Limits | Integrate Your Favorite Suppliers with a Universal PunchOut Connector
Precoro launched a Universal PunchOut Connector that enables procurement teams to link any supplier’s catalog directly within the platform. Users simply provide supplier credentials, fill a short profile, and choose PR or PO initiation, completing integration in three steps without...
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Germany’s Akbank AG Successfully Completes First Phase of Core Banking Migration to Mambu in Partnership with Innovance [Sponsored]
Akbank AG, the German arm of Turkey’s Akbank, completed Phase 1 of its core‑banking migration to Mambu’s SaaS cloud platform, moving all Retail and Private‑banking customers onto a composable, API‑first architecture hosted on Microsoft Azure. The transformation was executed with Innovance,...
The Best Celigo Alternatives in 2026
Celigo remains a robust enterprise integration platform, but its reliance on pre‑built connectors and a heavy AI interface drives many organizations to seek simpler, faster‑to‑value solutions. Zapier, MuleSoft Anypoint, Microsoft Power Automate, Boomi, Workato, Informatica, and Fivetran are highlighted as...
ViDA and the Future of ERP Integration: How to Build for Continuous Transaction Controls
ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age) pushes organisations from periodic tax reporting to continuous transaction controls (CTCs) that must validate invoices in near‑real time. This shift exposes ERP systems built on batch processing as a bottleneck, forcing a redesign of...
How Zscaler and OpenAI Turn Zero-Trust Security Into an AI Accelerator
Zscaler has partnered with OpenAI through the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, gaining early access to the security‑tuned GPT‑5.4‑Cyber model. The firm is embedding these models into its Zero Trust Exchange, AI Red Teaming, and managed detection and response...
SAP Embeds AI Across CX in Q1 2026 Release
SAP’s Q1 2026 Customer Experience release embeds artificial intelligence directly into core sales, service, commerce and marketing workflows, turning AI into an execution fabric linked to ERP, supply chain and finance. The update adds features such as an Outlook email‑to‑quote add‑in,...
Salesforce, Databricks Unveil Agentic AI Governance Tools
Salesforce and Databricks introduced new agentic AI governance features, extending their Agent Fabric and AI Gateway platforms. The tools provide granular token management, permission controls, fixed handoff rules, and API usage policies to curb the rapid spread of AI agents...
McGraw-Hill Confirms Data Exposure, Hackers Claim 45M Salesforce Records Leaked
McGraw‑Hill confirmed a data exposure caused by a Salesforce misconfiguration, after extortion group ShinyHunters claimed it had accessed up to 45 million records. The company’s investigation found only a limited set of non‑sensitive data exposed on a publicly reachable webpage, not...
Smarter Warehouse Operations for Greater Efficiency and Control
Infios Warehouse Management (WM) launches a cloud‑native solution that unifies inventory data, workflows, and real‑time analytics. The platform promises out‑of‑the‑box visibility into stock levels, automated picking and shipping, and scalable support for omnichannel fulfillment. A downloadable whitepaper details how the...
Forterro Moves to Acquire Klaes, Expanding Its Footprint in European Manufacturing Software
Forterro announced its intention to acquire German ERP specialist Klaes, expanding its portfolio in the European windows, doors and façades market. The deal builds on recent purchases of Orgadata and BM Group, creating a unified platform that merges Klaes’ configuration...
Backbase and Ninth Wave Team Up to Bring Open Finance to Commercial Banking
Backbase, the Amsterdam‑based banking‑software platform, announced a strategic partnership with New York‑based open‑finance specialist Ninth Wave to give commercial banks direct, permissioned connectivity between corporate clients’ ERP and accounting systems and their banking data. The joint solution provides real‑time data...
Spain’s Path to Mandatory E-Invoicing: Compliance, Systems, and Readiness
Spain has enacted the Crea y Crece Law, making B2B e‑invoicing mandatory and rendering PDF or paper invoices invalid. Technical specifications are slated for release by July 2026, after which large enterprises must comply within one year and all other...
VMware’s New Tanzu Platform And AI Agents: 10 Security, Data And AI Key Innovations
VMware unveiled Tanzu Platform 10.4 alongside the new Agent Foundations runtime, a pre‑engineered PaaS for AI agents built on VMware Cloud Foundation. The release adds a zero‑trust sandbox, immutable supply‑chain buildpacks, and structural secrets isolation to secure autonomous workloads. Tanzu Platform 10.4...
Intercede Now Supports Idemia PS Devices for Unified FIDO, PKI Credential Management
Intercede has integrated Idemia Public Security’s newest authentication hardware into its MyID CMS 12.18 platform, enabling unified management of both FIDO and PKI credentials. The Idemia devices, built on the COSMO X platform, meet the FIPS 201 PIV standard required for...
Early Warning’s Certos Launches and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/16/26
Early Warning Services launched Certos, a suite aimed at reducing fraud while widening financial access for U.S. banks. Binance introduced Binance Chat, adding crypto transfers, messaging and other in‑app functions. MegPrime rolled out a consumer app that rewards homebuyers with...
Commvault Links AI Agent Control to Faster Recovery for MSPs
Commvault announced a suite of AI‑focused extensions to its data‑protection platform, branding the offering as a "system of record" for AI resilience. The new AI Protect module unifies agent discovery, governance, and rollback capabilities across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. Data...
Monavate Integrates Sumsub for KYC Compliance
Monavate has integrated Sumsub’s identity‑verification engine into its MonavateOne platform, allowing programme managers to run full KYC checks without separate infrastructure. The live integration, currently covering the UK and the European Economic Area, offers document validation for over 220 countries,...
Origami Risk to Power Core Systems for Tokio Marine HCC Specialty Group
Origami Risk has been chosen by Tokio Marine HCC Specialty Group to replace its core insurance systems with a cloud‑native property and casualty platform. The solution will cover policy administration, billing, claims, analytics and reinsurance modeling across the insurer’s global...
The Agent Tier: Rethinking Runtime Architecture for Context-Driven Enterprise Workflows
Enterprises have long relied on deterministic workflows that encode business rules as static branches, ensuring predictability but struggling with context‑driven scenarios such as banking onboarding. Nitesh Varma proposes an "Agent Tier" – a runtime layer that handles contextual judgment, gathering...
AI Isn’t Killing SaaS — It’s Exposing Which Platforms Matter
The article argues that generative AI is not destroying SaaS but exposing which platforms are truly essential. Vertical SaaS solutions that embed industry‑specific workflows, payments and compliance remain irreplaceable despite AI’s code‑generation capabilities. AI will likely shift pricing from seat‑based...
Digital Insure Selects MHC to Modernize Customer Communications and Support Operational Resilience
Digital Insure, a Europe‑based digital‑first insurer, has chosen MHC’s NorthStar Customer Communications Management platform to replace its homegrown document‑generation system. The SaaS solution will run in a private Amazon cloud, boosting operational resilience, regulatory compliance and daily efficiency. MHC was...
Designing Finance for Scale: Why Charts of Accounts and Dimensions Matter More Than ERP Features
ERP implementations often run smoothly at launch, but scaling problems emerge years later when the underlying financial architecture—chart of accounts, dimensions, and entity hierarchy—cannot keep pace with growth. The article argues that these structural choices, made before or during go‑live,...
How AI Agents Are Reshaping ERP in the “SaaSpocalypse” Era
The article argues that the “SaaSpocalypse” hype oversimplifies AI’s impact on enterprise software, distinguishing between lightweight workflow tools and core ERP systems that hold deep data and compliance functions. Autonomous AI agents are already taking over repetitive, UI‑heavy tasks such...
Spingence and Digital Base Unveil Secure Internal Data-Connected AI Platform at AI EXPO Tokyo 2026
Spingence Technology and Japan’s Digital Base unveiled an "Internal Data-Connected AI Platform" at the AI Expo in Tokyo, targeting enterprises that need to keep sensitive data on‑premises. The solution combines Spingence’s AI infrastructure with Digital Base’s integration tools to enable...
Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. & InEight Establish Partnership to Support Efficient Project Delivery in Japan
InEight announced a partnership with Japan‑based Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. (KKE), making KKE an official reseller and implementation partner for InEight’s project information management platform. KKE, a multidisciplinary engineering firm with over 600 professionals, will help Japanese organisations adopt InEight’s...
Yazaki Selects Anaqua’s AQX Platform for Global IP Management
Anaqua announced that Yazaki Corporation has selected its AI‑powered AQX® platform to manage its global intellectual‑property portfolio. The deployment will unify IP data, provide advanced analytics, and integrate annuity services for cost visibility. Yazaki aims to streamline operations across regions...
Uni of Canberra and Qirx Drive Infrastructure Evolution Through Longstanding Partnership
The University of Canberra (UC) has deepened its three‑way partnership with managed‑service provider Qirx and hyper‑converged infrastructure vendor Nutanix. Since 2013, UC moved from a fragmented three‑tier stack to a consolidated Nutanix‑based private cloud that supports VMs, VDI, Kubernetes and...
Coremail Showcases at GITEX Asia 2026: Advancing Enterprise Communication with AI-Native Secure Email
Coremail unveiled its AI‑Native Secure Email System and CACTER AI‑Native Secure Email Gateway at GITEX Asia 2026 in Singapore. The solutions combine large language models with autonomous agents to transform email from a static messaging tool into a task‑execution hub....
Athena Launches FabOrchestrator™ to Bring Agentic AI Into Manufacturing Operations
Athena Technology Solutions unveiled FabOrchestrator™, billed as the manufacturing sector’s first Agentic AI Foundry. The platform layers autonomous AI agents atop existing MES systems such as Siemens Opcenter, turning fragmented data into actionable decisions. It automates reporting, ticket handling, system...
As AI Infosec Woes Heighten, IBM Intros Autonomous Security Service
IBM unveiled its Autonomous Security service, an AI‑agent platform that scans software exposures and runtime environments to automatically identify and remediate vulnerabilities. The launch coincides with heightened concern over Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT‑5.4‑Cyber models, which can uncover thousands of...
SAP Security Patch Day April 2026: Critical Vulnerabilities, CVSS 9.9 SQL Injection, and Authorization Risks
On April 2026 SAP released its monthly Security Patch Day, publishing 19 new security notes and an update. The most critical issue is a CVSS 9.9 SQL injection vulnerability in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Business Warehouse that...
Why Innovaccer Is Pouring $250M Into Its Agentic AI Platform
Healthcare AI firm Innovaccer announced a $250 million, three‑year investment to expand its agentic AI platform built on the “Gravity” unified data layer. The platform deploys AI agents across patient access, value‑based care, revenue cycle, risk assessment and utilization management, delivering...
Certinia Introduces Veda AI to Embed Intelligent Operations Into Services ERP
Certinia has launched Veda AI, an intelligent operations engine embedded within its services‑focused ERP platform. The suite delivers automation, predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and contextual assistance across projects, finance, and resource management. By making AI a native layer rather than...
50 Years of Global Shop Solutions: A Conversation with Dusty Alexander CEO and President, Global Shop Solutions
Global Shop Solutions celebrated its 50th anniversary as a family‑owned ERP provider that has never strayed from a manufacturing‑only focus. Founded in 1976, the company grew by embedding its platform directly on shop floors, expanding internationally while maintaining a debt‑free...
Connecticut’s CISO Pushes a Unified, Outcome-Driven Cyber Strategy
Connecticut’s chief information security officer Gene Meltser warned that tool sprawl, not lack of technology, is the state’s biggest cyber risk. He advocated a unified, identity‑centric security stack that emphasizes risk reduction over product count. By consolidating overlapping solutions and...
Zuora Collections Launches in Europe with Germany Data Center for In-Region Data and AI-Driven Workflows
Zuora has launched its AI‑powered Collections product for European customers, supported by a new data center in Germany that stores all data within the EU. The platform automates outreach, risk scoring, and cash‑flow forecasting by linking billing, revenue and collections...
Agentic AI Changes the Shape of Trust
Enterprises built identity models around human logins, but agentic AI is reshaping that foundation. Delegated and autonomous AI agents assume roles, cache credentials, and create access paths that persist long after a task ends, making attribution difficult. Traditional IAM and...
One-Click Security Scanning and Org-Wide Alert Triage Come to Advanced Security
Microsoft Azure DevOps Advanced Security now offers two major capabilities: a CodeQL default setup that enables one‑click, organization‑wide code scanning without manual pipeline configuration, and a combined alerts experience in Security Overview that consolidates all repository alerts into a single...